Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Edsger DijkstraThe tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
Edsger DijkstraLISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.
Edsger DijkstraSimplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
Edsger Dijkstra